Bronzi Del Mondo Ellenistico

I’ve gone on about this exhibition to anyone who’ll listen, so I guess it only makes sense to post about…

THERE WAS THIS EXHIBITION of large-scale bronze sculptures from, well, the Hellenistic World! And hooooly crap was it awesome… I couldn’t stop going back!

There were some life-size statues, and some tiny ones… and life-size statue of Athena that adorned one of the Medici’s writing desks?! Who has a bronze statue of a goddess on their writing desk… WHAT DID THE REST OF THE DESK LOOK LIKE? Anyway, I think it was called the Athena of Arezzo, cause it was found in a well in Arezzo. Man oh man, the history under our feet and in our drinking water… And there were some huge statues, too… Fragments of some that must have been more than ten feet tall…

It was just inspiration itself. Seriously.

Hahaha, if I haven’t made myself clear; I LOVED IT.

Herakles and Hermes.

This horsey bro was HUGE.

Apollo and Athena.

I love the colour and texture of bronze… I mean, I won’t say I captured it here, but I love it…

Some of them just kept on inspiring me over and friggin over.

Some of them were broken. Sooo broken in the best possibly ways…

The statue on the right (apparently) was once considered the most ideal Greek statue in existence.

This awesome statue of Athena was like a giant coin, and she was popping out of it. Can you see the head of Medusa on top of her head?

INTERESTING HISTORICAL NOTE: Palazzo Strozzi, where the exhibition was held, had an exhibition on Cezanne and his contemporaries back in 2007, the first time I was in Italy. I saw it. It changed me forever. Cezanne is one of the first artists that I’ve ever actually understood… after seeing his work, that is. The exhibition itself actually had way more of Cezanne’s contemporaries on display than actual Cezanne paintings, which I didn’t quite expect. But… well… it was fantastic. It changed me. Maybe the Hellenistic exhibition will do the same…? I’ve never thought so hard about sculpting than I have since this exhibition…